The company manufactures and distributes supplies for hospitals in the greater Miami-Dade area in Florida. The following problems are critical for the company. Your CEO, David Bland, has asked you, the operations manager, to see if analytics can help in solving or mitigating the problems.

They have one large national competitor who generally gets most of the work from the larger hospitals because they are cheaper.

Many of the manufacturing projects are not completing on time.

Choose two articles from the list below along with your textbook to research the types of problems analytics can help us solve. After reviewing the articles, discuss ways that analytics can help XYZ Healthcare and also discuss some of the potential obstacles to implementing analytics. Use the following articles to support your arguments.

Early Predictions of Movie Success: The Who, What, and When of Profitability. Link to article.

How Statistical Analytics has Changed Sports. Link to article.